16 skulls in the rot bucket

[Wolfwoman]

10 lynx, a coyote, 2 wolves and three wolverine - these all belong to someone else and just went in today.

That's not the interesting part tho. I just went out and took all my skulls out of the bin that had been there ALL winter and most of last spring, summer and fall Doesn't seemed to have hurt any of the skulls so far at all. I've only completely taken out a bobcat and other than one eye orbit bone coming off, eveything else seems just fine.

Once I get all my skulls out of the water that they're in now (there's about 20 of em) I'll dry them, degrease the ones the need degreasing and then peroxide - should be interesting to see how they all fared in water and then frozen for almost a year   I'll try and remember to get pics.

[JT's Boneyard]

I can smell them from here Wolfwoman!

[Wolfwoman]

Not too bad out there yet

[stitcherman]

Not too bad out there yet

Ya ever have problems from the dogs in the neighborhood?

[Wolfwoman]

I have nine BIG dogs - other critters are not an issue   I've never even had a bear come in the area tho lots of people seem to think rotting flesh attracts them... I WISH!

[Wolfwoman]

Each head is in a ziplock bag and sealed up   Teeth stay quite nicely in the bottom of the bag when everything is done and nice and clean.

[Colonel]

Each head is in a ziplock bag and sealed up   Teeth stay quite nicely in the bottom of the bag when everything is done and nice and clean.

This is exactly how I do maceration as well and I can thank Wolfie for the idea back when I first started. I also do the same thing when degreasing with the ziplock bags in a large heated tank.


Oh and Bonnie, why have they sat so long? You gettin lazy or just busy? LOL

[Wolfwoman]

Colonel, I'm ALWAYS busy with something. I don't do skulls over the winter because I have no place indoors to do them. At the beginning of last summer (Spring probably) I put them out there and hoped to get to them sometime that fall, but the summer was so absolutely crappy last year (weather wise - only 3 days over 65 degrees and most of the summer was rain) that I just couldn't get out in it to get it done. Plus I was doing a LOT of sewing to try and get some of my stuff out into other places.

So because they were MY skulls, they just sat... if they'd been for a customer I'd have found some way to get them done - even if it gave me pneumonia...lol  Is'nt that the way it always goes?

[Colonel]

So because they were MY skulls, they just sat... if they'd been for a customer I'd have found some way to get them done - even if it gave me pneumonia...lol  Is'nt that the way it always goes?

Dunno about that, still trying to get that far along in business...  LOL But I hope your right, I'd much rather have cash than some animal head added to my collection.

[Wolfwoman]

Oh they're not for my collection, I don't have one... well... I have two skulls that I'm keeping... a moose and a clydesdale.  The rest will be for sale eventually

[Colonel]

Wow you have a Clydesdale skull? There is a farm here locally that raises the Clydesdale's for Anheuser-Busch company. Those are some big dad gum horses!

[Wolfwoman]

Yup, bought it on here awhile ago. When I get done with my moose skull I'm gonna put em on the wall side by side for size comparison  

[Wolfwoman]

No pics yet.... at least none that anyone would want to see, but the rot bucket is getting VERY aromatic!!

[Wolfwoman]

This is the batch of skulls that wintered over in the bin and got frozen. So they sat in water all last spring, summer and fall, then froze through the entire winter, and I'm just now getting them out and getting them all together and ready to be degreased.

I'm going to try something on one of them that I haven't tried before - going to supglue the teeth in and then I'm going to degrease and peroxide. If the teeth don't fall out through that entire process, then superglue is my new friend